Indonesia's trade minister says his country is considering cutting Australian beef imports in the wake of revelations of Australian spying.

Gita Wirjawan says he last week asked parliament to start looking at whether legislation can be adjusted to allow Indonesia to import beef from other countries instead of Australia.

Indonesia has provisions that restrict imports from countries where diseases like foot and mouth exist, but Mr Wirjawan says he confident that the country can get around that because Malaysia imports from disease free parts of India.

Mr Wirjawan says the move to look at suppliers that could replace Australian beef - which could include India and South America - is partly or mostly because of the spying scandal.